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Thor, Annika

A Faraway Island

248 pp. | Delacorte | November, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-385-73617-6 $16.99 | Library ISBN 978-0-385-90590-9 $19.99
(1) 4-6 Translated by Linda Schenck. Stephanie, twelve, and Nellie, eight, Jewish sisters from cosmopolitan Vienna, are evacuated to a fishing village on a small, stark Swedish island. The girls are separated: Nellie is placed with kind, warm Aunt Alma and Stephie with stern, brusque Aunt Marta. Through straightforward, unsentimental prose, an unusually fine balance is achieved between small, child-centered humiliations and joys and larger adult issues.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010

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